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civil war and reconstruction timeline

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    Missouri compromise helped the balance of power which made land distributing fair. In 1820 south supported Missouri compromise since slavery was in Louisiana.(GA textbook)
  • Dred Scott case

    Dred Scott case
    He was a slave who wanted to have his rights when he was in a free state. Dred Scott went to court to fix his right but was not a citizen so a owner in 1857 brought them and freed them.(GA textbook)
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    Emancipation Proclamation

    A act that allowed slaves to be free little at a time. Everyone in the north was unhappy for this act because it was unconstitutional.(GA textbook)
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    Andersonville

    A Union prison were confederates captured Union solders to die. Andersonville started in 1864 it was 16 acres that heled 10,000 men Henry Wirz was in command of the place.(GA textbook)
  • Freedmen's Bureau

    Freedmen's Bureau
    This system helped poor whites, freemen when war was over by giving them food, shelter, how to properly survive life. Freedmen's Bureau helped pay for a little bit of the sharecropper payment if the family did not have enough money.(GA textbook)
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    Henry McNeal Turner and the black Legislators

    Henry Turner was a minister of a church to becoming one of the first black Legislators. The republicans took out all black legislators and Henry Turner went to talk about this with the U.S. Senators, Congressmen.(GA textbook)